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Old 14th Aug 2019, 2:20 pm   #16
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Default Re: AR EB101 turntable

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Originally Posted by ajgriff View Post
Fortunately Arnold Sugden was a designer and engineer who really understood the important fundamentals of vinyl reproduction.
I have heard this said before and he certainly came up with some innovative ideas for stereo. However, if he really was such a talented vinyl designer, you would think he would have known that two of its fundamentals are rotating the record at a consistent speed and in the right direction...

In all fairness, I have heard from an industry source that, by the time the BD1 design appeared, he was no longer involved with the product design and hadn't been for a few years, so maybe the Connoisseur Works' apprentice is to blame.

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Originally Posted by Ted Kendall View Post
And you are seriously bracketing the BD1 and the Strathearn? Oh, puleeease...
What's the problem? The two salient facts are that:

(1) Strathearns have a reputation for going round backwards

(2) The BD1/2 has two engineering 'sticking plasters' applied to it otherwise it has a tendency to do the same.

I just find it puzzling that (1) makes the Strathearn models a figure of fun, whereas (2) is a sweet and amusing little quirk that we should all go "Aaaaah; how cute" to. Surely they are either both a bad thing, or an irrelevance?
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